Spam Advise

[admin at kclinux.net]

Speaking of which, I do need the list's owner to email me back.  I never got
a reply from you from my last email regarding fighting the spam on this
list.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Aaron
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:40 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Spam Advise

Hello all.
 
First off, let me say that I am not one of those anti spam zealots.  No, I
don't much care for it, but my philosophy is a delete key is pretty good for
a nominal amount of spam.  This is not an e-mail bashing the moderators of
this list for not adequately protecting me from spam.  However, lately it
seems to be getting pretty bad for me.  I receive anywhere from 800-1000
emails a day and roughly 700-900 of them are spam.
 
After careful discussion with my wife I have come to a couple conclusions.
 
One, My genitals are plenty large and do not need another 3 inches.
 
Two,  I do not need Viagra (Natural or otherwise) from any online pharmacy.
 
Three,  I don't need to meet horny singles in my area.
 
Four, I have no desire to see young sluts sucking c##k.  (At least not for
$29.95 a month)
 
Five, I do not need a new mortgage loan.
 
and Six,  I probably do not have time to make an additional $1000/wk from
home.
 
Because of this, I have implemented some filters on both my mail server and
my personal machine.  They've cut my spam intake by roughly 20%.  That still
leaves hundreds of e-mails a day coming through.
 
So I came up with another idea...  I've developed a system by which incoming
spam is either filtered or gets sent (manually) to a script that strips the
header off and saves the e-mail address it was sent from.  Once the address
is on the list, all other e-mails that contain spam from that e-mail, or
others sent to be put on the list are routed to every e-mail address
currently on the list.  What this does is send roughly 800-1000 spam e-mails
a day back to the people sending me spam.
 
My question to the group is this:  What do you think the legal ramifications
of this are?  I've thought of people spoofing the headers or hacking an
account and using it to send spam.  My system would then flood unsuspecting
people with all my spam.
 
I would also leave all my headers in tact to make sure they know who's
forwarding it to them.  That way, hopefully they will remove me in an effort
to stop the flow of their own e-mail coming back on them.
 
Any thoughts on this?
 
Aaron